Considerations of the moral case for coal must do far more than consider whether cheap fossil energy will lift people out of poverty. It must consider the pollution and harm to nature that come with it.

Stéphane Charbonnier’s Charlie Hebdo offended people of all religions, but when does causing offence become unethical?
EPA/Yoan ValatJanuary 29, 2015

Causing offence to others often causes hurt. Such actions have been condemned as unethical, even immoral behaviour in a civilised society. There have been many examples. The Bill Henson photographs of…